| adamantine |
firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
| appurtenance |
(plural) equipment or instruments used for a given purpose; gear. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| beatify |
to admire or exalt as superior. |
| bilge |
the rounded part of a ship's hull between the bottom and the sides. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| iatrogenic |
caused by a physician or medical treatment, especially from drugs or surgery. |
| panegyric |
a formal speech or piece of writing devoted to publicly praising a person or thing. |
| pelf |
money or wealth, usually regarded with disapproval or contempt. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| stentorian |
extremely loud and powerful. |
| sylph |
a slender, graceful woman or girl. |
| tamp |
to compress and pack tightly by repeated light taps. |